The intelligent sweeping robot looks really smart. It can automatically complete the cleaning task according to the preset time and automatically return to the charging dock for charging after cleaning. Can these smart products really free our hands and save daily cleaning time? In fact, the Neato XV-11 intelligent sweeper did not leave us a good impression in the past few days when we used it. Many times you will find that its IQ is not enough, and you often need to help manually.
The Neato XV-11 can be said to be a more representative intelligent sweeper on the market, but in actual use, this sweeper still disappointed us, and some small accidents occurred in many tests. One time it was jammed by the wire, one time it was jammed by the roller brush, and another time it was jammed by the chair
Although the intelligent sweeper has a certain intelligence, it is far from enough. You must pet it according to its preferences and clear the obstacles in front of it before starting it. For intelligent products, we still allow some artificial assistance, but if you want to serve like a princess, you will lose the meaning of intelligence completely.
Well, let's not complain. How can we say that such a product still has its advanced side? After all, it can perform cleaning tasks well under certain conditions. Although there are many problems at present, we are optimistic about the future of these products.
An important core of the intelligent sweeper is how to conduct spatial positioning. The Neato XV-11 uses laser positioning technology, which is the so-called RPS technology that Neato is most proud of. It can generate a 360 degree 3D digital map of your room through the rotatable laser and reflected waves on the top of the machine. With this 3D map, the walking route of the Neato XV-11 can be reasonably arranged to minimize repeated routes.
In the following video, we can see the walking route of the Neato XV-11. The route of the sweeping robot is planned, not random. In addition, you should note that this robot can automatically judge the height of the ground and automatically adjust its direction when it is near the edge of the desktop, so you don't have to worry about the robot falling down the stairs or into the toilet.
Our desktop is not completely flat. There is a hole in the desktop. When the robot sweeps the floor, it will make its own judgment and clean around the hole. In the actual test, the Neato XV-11 will first sweep a large circle around the room, and then take a "few" line in the circle. It can be seen that Neato VX-11 does a good job in positioning.
Like most sweeper robots, there is a buffer device in front of the Neato XV-11, which can enhance its recognition of obstacles and prevent damage to furniture and walls. However, this effect is still very unsatisfactory.
In the following video, we have placed 3 obstacles on the desktop. In the process of cleaning, the sweeper knocked all the obstacles open, and the buffer device did not play a big role because the resistance generated by the obstacles was too small. If we don't stop them, they will surely fall off the table. In the actual environment, the sweeper often pushes our garbage cans everywhere, but fortunately the garbage in the garbage cans has not been knocked out. In fact, the situation of the garbage can is good. If we have wine bottles, cups or other valuables on the ground, will the robot damage them? Will you pour the water out of the cup?
The most essential job of the sweeper is to clean the floor. What is the cleaning effect? Let's also take a look at the video below. We added a lot of small paper scraps, an iron wire, a piece of glasses cloth and a black adhesive tape on the desktop.
After the sweeping machine finished cleaning, there were still two small paper balls left on the table, and some small paper balls were pushed to the bottom of the table. In fact, the walking path of Neato's sweeper has covered the entire desktop. Theoretically, there should be no such thing as a fish in the net. What's the matter? When the sweeper passes by, these lighter paper balls are not sucked to the bottom of the sweeper, but pushed by the sweeper, which also causes some paper balls to fall to the ground, and some paper balls are pushed to the route that has just been swept, resulting in fish in the net.
Let's take a look at the soft glue brush. There are many small paper balls stuck on the soft glue brush. They have not been sucked into the garbage storage box. The eye cloth and black tape we started to test are also stuck there. If we don't clean them for too long, the soft glue brush will be stuck and can't move. Then the display screen starts to call for help again, "The roller brush is stuck, please check"!! It's very positive to call for help!!. In actual use, the Neato VX-11 sucked in the network cable and stuck the soft glue brush.
Finally, let's talk about the operation of the Neato VX-11. The operation of the Neato is very good. Generally, we just press the orange start button and the sweeping robot will automatically start sweeping the floor. After sweeping, it will return to the charging dock for charging. In addition, we can set the date and time of automatic sweeping in the menu. It's not easy to remove the filter screen of the garbage storage box. Every time I remove the dust, it will give me a look. I have to make a guest appearance in the vacuum cleaner.
Another thing to note is that the Neato VX-11 is still used when no one is in the room. Why? Because the noise from the sweeper is too loud. Generally, 40-60 decibels belongs to our normal conversation voice. Above 60 decibels belongs to the noisy range. At 70 decibels, we can think it is very noisy and starts to damage the auditory nerve. Our sweeping machine has reached 84 decibels, which makes a moving noise!!
We were looking forward to the Neato VX-11 sweeper at first, but in our company, this guy would get stuck 9 times out of 10 times. This IQ is good if we don't say that it is mentally retarded, so the probability of being stuck can't be used at all. In addition, the things Neato can clean are still limited. It can only clean some very small things. She is really powerless for something a little bigger. If she does, she may get stuck. In fact, this so-called intelligence can only be completed with the help of a large number of people, so its IQ is quite alarming.
